History says that for magnificence, splendor, and cost Solomon's Temple has never been equaled. It occupied three fourths of a square mile, and cost a billion dollars; yet not a vestige of it remains. Several Temples have since been built on the spot where it stood. So we see that the enduring temple that man is to build is not the outersymbol, but the bodytemple of JesusChrist.

We are told by physiologists that the whole organism is built cell by cell and destroyed cell by cell. The builder of a house uses brick and mortar, and to this we have a correspondence in body building and in character building. There must be pigeonholes where all the different thoughts, feelings, and memories can be filed away, that they may be found readily when wanted. This is the object of the divinebodytemple, and it is a wonderful structure. It is not only substance, but life, intelligence, power. It is fitted to express DivineMind perfectly.

In the Temple there was first the court of the Gentiles, the outer court where all people of every nation could gather and be in touch with spirituallife; but the Gentiles were not allowed to enter the inner court. Only those were permitted there who took religious vows. These two courts are representative of two states of mind. In orderly process of man's development there are certain conditions to be observed. The rabble from the outer court cannot enter the inner without purification. People who strive to enter without a mental cleansing, a change of mind, meet conditions worse than they had before. In the inner court was the altar for sacrificial offering. It was thirty feet square, and seven and a half feet high. On this altar "burnt-offerings" of all kinds were made. Every person who came to worship was expected to bring an offering: a goat, a kid, a dove, or the like. Here is a representation of the giving up of all animal proclivities in the regeneration. In the religious life those who seek God must live differently from those who are in sense consciousness. There must be a change of mind and a relinquishment of all that pertains to sense ways.

Still further in the second court was the brazen sea, held up by twelve brazen oxen. There were ten lavers also. The brazen sea represents the soul. It is necessary to have a certain cleansing of the whole consciousness from the idea of sin. He who enters "the temple" must realize his innate purity, and if he observes the various steps in purification through denial, he will have this consciousness.

Every person is a high priest in his own consciousness. When you say, "Jehovah is in his holy temple," do you think of God as dwelling in externals ? If you do, have the fearlessness to say to every tumultuous thought, "Be still, and know that I amGod." "Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him" and know that your own God-given ego is speaking.